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That Game We Played During the War

10 best books like That Game We Played During the War (Carrie Vaughn): Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, Brimstone and Marmalade, A Kiss With Teeth, The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, The City Born Great, Lullaby for a Lost World, The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016

Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The May/June 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Seanan McGuire, Kat Howard, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, and Haralambi Markov, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Foz Meadows, Tanya DePass, Sarah Monette, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by Beth Cato, M. Sereno, and...
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
AuthorAlyssa Wong
The day my sister ended the world, the sky opened up in rain for the first time in years, flooding the desert wash behind our house. The snakes drowned in their holes and the javelinas stampeded downstream, but the water overtook them, and the air filled with their screaming as they were swept away.

this...
Brimstone and Marmalade
AuthorAaron Corwin
ISBN1466856394
Just in time for Halloween, we have a funny, sweet, and slightly skewed short story by Aaron Corwin, an up-and-coming writer from Seattle.

All Mathilde wanted for her birthday was a pony. Instead, she got a demon. Sometimes growing up means learning that what you think you want is not always...
A Kiss With Teeth
AuthorMax Gladstone
I'm upping my rating from 4.5 stars to 5 stars on rereading this Tor.com online freebie. I love this story! Vlad the vampire is married to a human (in fact, the woman who was originally hunting him down!). They have a young son, and Vlad tries to live like a regular human, denying his darker self and powers....
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
AuthorJohn Chu
ISBN1466838116
In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese parents.

This...
The City Born Great
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient...
Lullaby for a Lost World
AuthorAliette de Bodard
ISBN0765389819
Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up through the walls, feeding his power and continuing the cycle. As time passes and the ones she loved fade away, the house and the master remain, and she yearns ever more deeply for vengeance.

At the...
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
AuthorTina Connolly
ISBN1250296994
Nebula nominee for best novelette in 2018! 4.5 stars for this excellent Tor fantasy story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Saffron is one of the official food tasters for Duke Michal, the regent for an infant prince. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind...
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
AuthorDominik Parisien
An all-new anthology of cross-genre fairy tale retellings, featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.

Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.

Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries....
Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The November/December 2016 issue of the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli,...
The Art of Space Travel
AuthorNina Allan
ISBN0765390655
The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned mission to Mars ended in tragedy. Thirty years later, a second expedition is preparing to launch. As housekeeper of the hotel where two of the astronauts will give their final press statements, Emily finds the...
Apex Magazine Issue 80
AuthorJason Sizemore
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

Extra large Customer Appreciation issue!

TABLE OF CONTENTS...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 115 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #115)
AuthorNeil Clarke
FICTION
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
“Balin” by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu
“The Bridge of Dreams” by Gregory Feeley
“The Cedar Grid” by Sara Saab
“Old Friends” by Garth Nix
“Winter's Wife” by Elizabeth Hand

NON-FICTION
“Silver...
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
AuthorFran Wilde
ISBN0765389835
From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.

The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power...
Daughter of Necessity
AuthorMarie Brennan
i do love stories like this - stories that take a well-known work as their foundation and then poke around in it to locate the parts of the story that stick out in our minds as unfinished or unexplored. where the heck did heathcliff go for those three years? what were bertha and miss havisham like before all...
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